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Have played out? >> i don't think something like that would have had that kind of a reaction. but it may, because my son has been inundated with phone calls and well wishers, including messages from atheists who say you know what, don't agree with you, but good for you for standing up for what you believe in. >> this is all about the separation of church and state, obviously, but there's also a wider issue that religion is slowly going out of fashion in america. there are far less church goers today than there were 25 years ago, say. what do you make of that? how important is it for people lik...

Shelter with other family members. possibly -- certainly other children and an adult in a storm ditch. was swept away, which obviously, you know, deepens the severity of the incident exponentially. so beyond that, we're receiving a lot of missing persons calls. we really don't know how many of those are potential victims. the missing persons reports are not uncommon. most of them are cleared within the first 24 hours after an event like this. that said, obviously, the number of casualties would probably go up. we would expect that to go up in the next 24 hours. hopefully not much and hopefully...

Wow, that's what it looked like as these tornadoes rushed through as many as five twisters hit oklahoma. you see cars speeding down the road, the debris flying everywhere out of a total of 17 that were reported, that number from the national weather service. watch that bale of hay slam into the car. 17 is the number from the national weather service across the midwest. >> two of the towns in the path of the storm el reno and union city, five deaths blamed on the storm including a mother and small child. at least 70 others were injured but that may not be all. >> a number of casualties will pro...

Tornadoes with strong winds and hail on sunday. >> as you know hag my hometown. so people have to be careful there i want to ask you have you ever seen it like this? >> sure. >> it may, this is the peak of the season, tornado alley is where they see it this, is not a strong storm but when you see these storms they, that is when people are most prepared for storms. storms we see tomorrow and sunday will not be as strong or should not be as strong as today. but that doesn't mean that some tornadoes couldn't cause damage inp2í&>. >> right. rick, thank you for staying on top of this. thank you, ...

There. so i other thing i was going to mention, martin, about 1999 -- >> right. >> -- as a result of that tornado, it changed the culture in oklahoma. so when another incredible tornado came along in 2003 that was very similar, just four years later, they had many more saferooms and much better response system. that survives to this day of the 1999 tornado. they are much more ready. i'm not saying we're not going to have horrendous news come out of this event. it's just too big, too many structures hit. it may, and looks like it was a wider path than 1999 and, therefore, will be worse in the s...